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Thus, last week, the first compulsory migration in U.S. history set out for Manzanar, in California's desolate Owens Valley. In the cavalcade were some 300 Japanese aliens and Nisei-U.S. citizens of Japanese blood. They were part of the first mass evacuation from the forbidden strip of West Coast land which Lieut. General John Lesesne DeWitt has made a military zone (TIME, March...
...Santa Fe station in down town Los Angeles another group of 500 aliens and Nisei (all men, as were the Japs who went by motor) boarded a special 13-car Southern Pacific train for Manzanar. A few impassive-faced Japanese women stood on the platform, handed up pop bottles through the open windows, waved good-by with composure. One was a white girl, clutching the hand of a small, wide-eyed, yellow-skinned...
...Valley, a desolate tract of land on the east side of the Sierra Nevadas, in Southern California. The Owens Valley settlement may eventually hold some 50,000 Japs. General DeWitt has plans for another center on the Colorado River near Blythe. But that was a dreary prospect for the Nisei outcasts, who remembered their rich lands and the smell...
Sober citizens felt they had good reason to be harsh. In Los Angeles, District Attorney John Dockweiler produced a map showing that Japs (or Nisei relatives) hold leases on lands adjoining nearly every strategic spot in Los Angeles County -including highways, railways, power lines, airports, aircraft plants, oil fields, refineries, aqueducts. Japs hold a flat, mile-square tract of semidesert land near Los Angeles which could be turned into a landing field for bombers in an hour or two. Japanese farmers cultivate most of the foggy shoreline of Palos Verdes (next door to vital San Pedro harbor), where landing parties...
...Angeles, 19-year-old Nisei Shigeki (Arthur) Kaihatsu reflected on the problem of his people. A former freshman star on the basketball team at U.C.L.A., young Arthur now works in a vegetable market. Said he: "Most of us Nisei are completely loyal. ... I guess there are some spies among us. I don't know. But the answer seems to be to take the whole bunch of us and dump us in one spot. The spies can't do any damage, and we won't be suspected...